Improved sirup for flavoring beverages



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Lr'ftv'rs Patent No. 95,605, dated October 5,1869.

IMPROVED SIRUP FOR FLAVORING- BEVERAGES, 8:0.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and. making part of the same To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VICTOR BILLET, of Hoboken, in the county of Hudson, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Sirup for Drinking and Flavo1ing-Purposes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a clear and exact description of the same, which will enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains, to fully understand and make the same.

In carrying out u my invention, I take a sufficient quantity of pomegranates, press them, and-allow the mass to ferment. I

The juice is drawn off and clarified by glue and the white of eggs, or any other suitable material, but I prefer to use the glue and eggs, since they do not injure the flavor or quality of the product.

In the clarified matter, I dissolve suflicient sugar, by preference white crushed, in such proportions as to make a sirup weighing, when cold, 34 Baum, using the water-bath heated to 50 centigrade. The sirup is then filtered.

eral flavoring-purposes.

I make a hydro-alcoholic extract of vanilla and cochineal, in the proportion of one ounce of each to one pint of diluted alcohol acidulated with tartaric acid.

The latter preparation is added to the prepared sirup, in the proportion of one ounce of the former to one gallon of the latter.

I t will be found that this compound sirup is delicious in flavor, and forms a refreshing drink, whether mixed with soda or ordinary water. It is also useful forgon- Haring thus described my invention, \Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

V. RILLET.

Witnesses: i

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, P. H. WAYNE. 

